Why Donald Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - And How the Left's Seething Silence Speaks Volumes

This year the Nobel Peace Prize went to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado, a true fighter against Maduro’s grip. Well deserved, but her dedication of the gong to Donald Trump on Fox News was the real headline-grabber. “He deserves it,” she said, hailing his “decisive support” in her struggle and his hand in calming eight global flashpoints in months. Trump, she added, is dismantling threats across the Americas and beyond.

The irony couldn’t be more delicious. Trump – the Left’s ultimate hate-figure, branded by leftists as a warmonger, a Nazi, a fascist, and worse – is the one delivering tangible peace, leaving his detractors in a bind they can’t wriggle out of without looking churlish. It’s almost as if they’d rather see him fail, even if it means prolonging the very conflicts they claim to abhor – much like those pro-Palestine mobs who keep marching despite the ceasefire, their true colours showing through the antisemitic placards.

His first-term Abraham Accords rewired the Middle East without fanfare, normalising ties between Israel and nations like the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, creating a framework for stability that Biden’s lot could only dream of. Now, back in the hot seat, Trump’s overseen a string of triumphs: the 20-point Gaza peace plan, with Israel and Hamas signing off on the first phase, leading to a ceasefire that’s holding into its third day and hostages finally heading home. He’s boldly declared “The war is over” en route to Israel, and the White House is already eyeing an expansion of the Accords to include Saudi Arabia and beyond, isolating Hamas and hopefully paving the way for a rebuilt Gaza – deradicalised, demilitarised, and prosperous.

All this while avoiding new wars – a record that’s not just political wins, but genuine global resets. Yet for the Trump-haters, admitting any of this sticks in the craw; better to pretend it’s all coincidence than concede the “fascist” is the peacemaker and not them.

Yet watch the Left wriggle. They’re celebrating peace while pretending Trump had nothing to do with it. Barack Obama, in his lofty Gaza statement, banged on about “unimaginable loss” and rebuilding – but Trump’s name? Nowhere to be seen. Some Democrats flat-out refuse to give Trump any credit, while others offer vague nods without naming him. It’s peak hypocrisy: the man they demonised is achieving what they only virtue-signalled about while making things worse.

And then we have the pro-Palestine hate mobs. There is a ceasefire in place, yet thousands still clogged London’s streets this weekend. The mask has slipped – It was never about a ceasefire. It was never about releasing the hostages. These vile people just want Israel wiped off the map.

Which brings us back to the UK and Labour’s cringe-worthy bid for relevance, ludicrously trying to claim credit for the ceasefire. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson appeared on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips and boldly asserted that the UK had “played a key role behind the scenes in shaping” the Gaza ceasefire. “We have been involved in complex matters of diplomacy,” she said, with a straight face.

This is a blatant lie. All Labour have done is betray our ally and make peace more difficult by rewarding Hamas with statehood.

Enter Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel, who didn’t hold back. Reposting the Sky clip on X, he shot back: “I assure you she’s delusional. She can thank @realDonaldTrump anytime just to set the record straight.” And he wasn’t alone. Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel outright rejected the notion, telling reporters that Britain’s role was negligible and that our hasty recognition of a Palestinian state had actually “prolonged the war” by muddying the waters.

Then there’s Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, who had already condemned that recognition move back in September as “idiotic” and counterproductive. He warned that such gestures “embolden Hamas” and make a ceasefire “harder” to achieve, insisting: “We told them that it would lead to these sorts of reciprocal actions and that it would make a ceasefire [in Gaza] harder.” Rubio went further, dismissing international efforts to recognise Palestine as ones that “undermine ceasefire negotiations and will lead to increased Hamas intransigence.” In other words, Labour’s virtue-signalling didn’t help – it hindered.

This isn’t just a diplomatic faux pas; it’s a betrayal of our closest ally, Israel, and a disgraceful reward for Hamas’s barbarism. The Labour Party is morally repugnant. By suspending arms sales and rushing to recognise a Palestinian state – something even Hamas cheered as a win – Starmer’s government has prioritised appeasing the pro-Palestine lobby over principled foreign policy and national security.

They have embarrassed Britain. We are diminished on the world stage and isolated from the real peacemakers.

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